The same global food system that is fueling rising obesity rates is also accelerating climate change, according to a sweeping ...

Eating the fermented food kimchi daily for 12 weeks may also help improve the immune system, in addition to its gut health ...

New research explores genetic and lifestyle differences of people who live to be at least 100. The study’s researchers found that people who live past the age of 100 have robust immune systems.

The neutropenic diet, which calls for nearly all food to be cooked at high heat to decrease infection risk, was waning in ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on a critical molecular mechanism underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ...

Plastics are not inert: they gradually break into fragments over time, forming micro- and then nanoplastics (i.e., particles ...

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As the COVID-19 pandemic reminded us, we humans are social animals who can suffer mentally from isolation. Now new research supports the view that horses also get stressed without the company of their ...

A scientist opens a laptop in front of a patient. On screen, a boy, tied to a fleet of balloons, fades in. As he rises into the air, the scene cuts abruptly to an office, where a man sits in front of ...

A tiny black hole may pass through our solar system once every ten or so years, researchers have suggested, and this could be detected by watching Mars wobble. This estimate is based on an idea ...